Leonora: With Letters on Several SubjectsBaldwin & Cradock, 1833 - 352 страници |
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Adieu admiration affection affectionate amiable Apicius assure beauty believe brielle CAROLINE Castle character charming convinced coquette cultivated curiosity danger daugh daughter dear friend dear Julia dear Margaret dearest mother delicacy detection think dread DUCHESS English entrez esteem expect eyes fair sex fancy fear feel female fête fête champêtre French friendship Gabrielle genius give grace happiness heart Heaven Helen heroines honour hope human husband idea imagination jealousy Josephine L Castle lady Leonora lady Olivia LEONORA L literary look lover manner MARIA EDGEWORTH ment metaphysics nature never numbers object OLIVIA TO MADAME opinion Paris passion perhaps Petersburg pity pleasure prejudice pride racter reason reproach sacrifice sense sensibility sentiment society soul spirit stancy strength of mind talents talk taste tell temper thing thought tion truth understanding vanity virtue voice weak whilst wife wish woman women words write Yarmouth
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Страница 132 - Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Let wealth, let honour, wait the wedded dame, August her deed, and sacred be her fame; Before true passion all those views remove, Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
Страница 93 - The practis'd languish, where well-feign'd desire Would own its melting in a mutual fire ; Gay smiles to comfort ; April showers to move ; And all the nature, all the art, of love.
Страница 31 - Grace was in all her steps. Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.
Страница 277 - Chemistry is not a science of parade, it affords occupation and infinite variety; it demands no bodily strength, it can be pursued in retirement, it applies immediately to useful and domestic purposes; and whilst the ingenuity of the most inventive mind may be exercised, there is no danger of inflaming the imagination; the judgment is improved, the mind is intent upon realities, the knowledge that is acquired is exact, and the pleasure of the pursuit is a sufficient reward for the labour.
Страница 228 - Oh that I had the wings of a dove, that I might fly away and be at rest,
Страница 7 - Her name was Margaret Lucas, youngest sister to the Lord Lucas of Colchester, a noble family ; for all the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous.
Страница 13 - A desperate change which ends in base retreat. He taught them Shame, the sudden sense of ill : Shame, nature's hasty conscience, which forbids Weak inclination ere it grows to will, Or stays rash will before it grows to deeds.
Страница 66 - Tis night, and the landscape is lovely no more ; I mourn, but, ye woodlands, I mourn not for you ; For morn is approaching, your charms to restore, Perfumed with fresh fragrance, and glittering with dew: Nor yet for the ravage of winter I mourn ; Kind nature the embryo blossom will save.